Yu Jie

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Hong Kong, May 8, 2014--The Committee
to Protect Journalists condemns the 10-year jail sentence given on Wednesday
to a Hong Kong publisher preparing to release a book critical of Chinese
President Xi Jinping.

China didn't make the cut for our 10 most censored countries. While the Chinese
Communist Party's censorship
apparatus is notorious, journalists and Internet users work hard to overcome
the restrictions. Nations like Eritrea and North Korea lack that dynamism.

Beijing-based blogger Woeser reported on her website Invisible Tibet today that she has been
confined to her residence by Beijing public security officers who are stationed
outside her home. Woeser, an outspoken critic of Chinese government policies in
Tibet, has written about a series of recent self-immolations among
monks and arrests
of writers in western China.

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New
York, January 13, 2012--The decision of prominent Chinese writer Yu Jie to seek
exile in the United States this week is an indication of the intensifying
hardships that face dissidents who criticize Communist Party rule, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.